[Zope] Re: RPCAuth again

[Tres Seaver]

David Cake wrote:
> At 2:38 PM +0800 8/11/04, David Cake wrote:
> 
>>     OK, I asked previously about installing RPCAuth on Debian. I got 
>> no useful responses (thanks to Tres Seaver for passing my message on 
>> to the author, but they didn't get back to me). There is basically no 
>> documentation on this product, couldn't get it to install on either 
>> zope 2.7 on Debian (apparently stops entire zope instance from 
>> working) or Mac OS X (just never shows up - its in 
>> /Applications/Plone2/Sites/Default/Products/ along with other 
>> products, but can't see any evidence Zope knows its there).
>>     So, anyone managed to install this product, or know how to debug 
>> installation problems of this kind?
>>     I'm having a very mixed experience with Zope/Plone - I either get 
>> a lot done in a short time, or things don't work and I get stopped 
>> dead, with very little documentation or help as to how to proceed.
> 
> 
>      Because I know this list is archived - apparently there is no 
> visible feedback (ie in Plone Setup, or any of the bits of ZMI that I 
> looked in) for this product, and my problem with installation on Debian 
> was disturbingly simple - after you have downloaded and unpacked it, you 
> need to change the name of the folder from RPCAuth-0.4 to just RPCAuth.
>     Most useful debugging technique is to start the Zope instance using 
> runzope rather than zopectl.

'zopectl fg' will run without daemonizing, and dump the event log to the 
console (if you enable that by setting 'debug-mode on' in zope.conf).

Tres.
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